Hearing a post of Tony with the young guitarist Andreas Vorady made me remember this video of young (13 years old at that time) pianist Gady Lehavi playing Autumn Leaves with Dave Liebman. What's incredible is his maturity in harmony. Enjoy !
Hi Everyone,
Good Vibes, the vibraphone zone, will air this Sunday night April 3rd at 8-10 pm eastern time.
Rebroadcast is Wednesday, April 6th, 4-6 pm eastern time. www.jazzon2.org and at iTunes (go to the radio list, then jazz, then Jazz Jersey Style). Also on your smartphone, as well as the broadcast stations listed below.
Here's a few highlights of the playlist:
Tony with "Kashmir"
Joe Locke and "Spring Is Here"
Terry Gibbs and the Dream Band, "Day In, Day Out"
Bill Ware, "Inner City Blues"
Sinatra vocal with Red Norvo "Willow Weep For Me"
I was just thinking about Dim's ability to process criticism without ego and turn it into immediate positive results. Of course it's a credit to him as a passionate musician/student(But isn't that what we are? Musicians and life long students?) It's also a credit to Tony for creating this wonderful platform where we all can present our work, exchange ideas and enjoy the fruits of constructive criticism. This should serve as a motivation for all Vibesworkshoppers to post as often as possible.
Richard posted this very recent gig exerpt on his FB... We didn't know him as harmonica player did we?! Beautiful rendition of this Metheny tune I wanted to share with you... Lovely feel!
Oh man... Beautiful!!!
Check these guys out if you're around. Should be great. They are incredible musicians. Just going to be EVI and Sax for this.
Concert will be live and online here:
Made you look.
The point I wanted to bring up is how do we make a living on this instrument? Who out there has made a living playing the vibes? Or was making a living and then got a 'real' job (as my mother used to say). What are your thoughts?
What are some ideas for graduating percussionists who really want to make a living out of playing jazz?? It is almost graduation time?
Have I brought this up already?
I was just thinking about this, on another post, talking about swinging.
A great musician told me, 'The only people who really know if you're a great player is everyone else but you. It's not your decision to make that'.
I play so often and am just not sure if I played a good solo or not, I try not to be judgemental.... I try. So many times I think I sucked and others including the band thought the opposite. Were they being nice to me? Or am I wrong.
I love this. Check out how the guitar player is comping and imagine comping like that behind someones solo. I'm working with a great latin percussionist so I'm learning a ton about the music (again). I've been checking out Changui music which I think means "beginning". Am I right? Any latinos out there?
I just think here's another way to comp. Just a single line.
I got this link on FB from Canadian vibist Robert Pelletier and it reminded me so much of Joe Porter's tambourine. Sorry explanations are in French as it's from a musical program in France with aim of making accessible and fun to all classical and jazz music.
The image/sound sync is not good either, but maybe the images speak enough by themselves and show the instrument functionning quite closely.
- Around 4"30 there's a first demo about the cymbals.
- Around 5"51 Carlo shows how he changes the pitch of the tambourine by unbending the skin.